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Colonoscopy, endoscopy, fecal calprotectin, CRP, imaging, intestinal ultrasound, and monitoring research.

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Intestinal ultrasound versus magnetic resonance enterography for detecting small bowel Crohn's disease in children.
Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition

Intestinal ultrasound versus magnetic resonance enterography for detecting small bowel Crohn's disease in children.

Children with Crohn's and their clinicians often need noninvasive, accessible ways to monitor small-bowel disease. If validated elsewhere, IUS with the reported BWT thresholds could reduce reliance on MRE, which is...

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Beyond bowel wall thickness: Is the international bowel ultrasound segmental activity score ready for prime time in Crohn's disease?
Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology

Beyond bowel wall thickness: Is the international bowel ultrasound segmental activity score ready for prime time in Crohn's disease?

Based on the title and source metadata, this appears to be an opinion or commentary related to Crohn's disease, Inflammatory bowel disease, and Intestinal ultrasound. The original article is from Indian journal of...

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Burden of Mental Disorders and Related Factors in Pediatric Patients with Ulcerative Colitis in Korea
Journal of Pharmacoepidemiology and Risk Management

Burden of Mental Disorders and Related Factors in Pediatric Patients with Ulcerative Colitis in Korea

This paper suggests children and teens with ulcerative colitis have higher rates of diagnosed mental disorders and antidepressant use compared with peers, indicating mental-health needs are an important part of pediatric...

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Advanced endoscopy and artificial intelligence-enabled vascular healing for ulcerative colitis: promising frontiers or mere mirage?
Clinical Endoscopy

Advanced endoscopy and artificial intelligence-enabled vascular healing for ulcerative colitis: promising frontiers or mere mirage?

If validated, AI-enhanced vascular assessment during endoscopy could give clearer, more reproducible information about mucosal and histologic healing — which matters for monitoring disease activity and guiding treatment...

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Upadacitinib Is Associated with the Lowest Risk of Treatment Failure Among Advanced Therapies for Ulcerative Colitis: A Real-World Administrative Claims Study.
Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association

Upadacitinib Is Associated with the Lowest Risk of Treatment Failure Among Advanced Therapies for Ulcerative Colitis: A Real-World Administrative Claims Study.

This large real-world study found upadacitinib was associated with lower risk of treatment failure and more corticosteroid-free stability compared with several other advanced therapies for ulcerative colitis —...

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Low Phase angle is a marker of deteriorated nutritional status and indicates a more active and endoscopically severe inflammatory bowel disease.
Clinical nutrition ESPEN

Low Phase angle is a marker of deteriorated nutritional status and indicates a more active and endoscopically severe inflammatory bowel disease.

Phase angle, an easy-to-measure BIA parameter, was lower in IBD patients with malnutrition and higher disease activity. Detecting malnutrition earlier could matter for patients' strength, healing, and overall outcomes.

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Drug Induced Myelosuppression and Alopecia Totalis in Ulcerative Colitis Patient: Unmasking the Enigma
Open Access Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drugs

Drug Induced Myelosuppression and Alopecia Totalis in Ulcerative Colitis Patient: Unmasking the Enigma

The report highlights a serious drug-related complication (pancytopenia/myelosuppression and hair loss) in a patient treated with azathioprine plus sulfasalazine for ulcerative colitis, suggesting clinicians and patients...

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AI-generated guidance for non-specialist physicians managing inflammatory bowel disease: expert evaluation and case-based testing of GPT-4 and DeepSeek.
Digestion

AI-generated guidance for non-specialist physicians managing inflammatory bowel disease: expert evaluation and case-based testing of GPT-4 and DeepSeek.

Non-specialist physicians often manage IBD where specialists are scarce. If reliable, AI tools could improve non-specialists' clinical reasoning and decision-making for IBD care.

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Bayesian Inference of Differential Metabolic Fluxes in Ulcerative Colitis using High-throughput Transcriptomics Data
Open Engineering Inc

Bayesian Inference of Differential Metabolic Fluxes in Ulcerative Colitis using High-throughput Transcriptomics Data

New computational tools that tie gene-expression to metabolic flux could help researchers identify metabolic pathways or biomarkers linked to ulcerative colitis, which might eventually inform research on disease...

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Differential Enteric Glial and Mast Cell Characteristics Distinguish Microscopic Colitis Subtypes Relative to Healthy and Disease Controls, with Treatment-Associated Reductions in Glial Reactivity and Mast Cell Degranulation in Collagenous Colitis
Cells

Differential Enteric Glial and Mast Cell Characteristics Distinguish Microscopic Colitis Subtypes Relative to Healthy and Disease Controls, with Treatment-Associated Reductions in Glial Reactivity and Mast Cell Degranulation in Collagenous Colitis

The paper identifies subtype-specific changes in enteric glial cells and mast cell activity in microscopic colitis and shows some treatment-associated reductions after budesonide; that helps explain disease biology and...

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No Independent Association Between Serum Zinc Levels and Endoscopic Disease Activity Assessed by the Ulcerative Colitis Endoscopic Index of Severity: A Single-Center Retrospective Study
GE - Portuguese Journal of Gastroenterology

No Independent Association Between Serum Zinc Levels and Endoscopic Disease Activity Assessed by the Ulcerative Colitis Endoscopic Index of Severity: A Single-Center Retrospective Study

The study suggests that serum zinc by itself may not be a reliable indicator of endoscopic inflammation in UC; nutritional status and inflammation (for example albumin and CRP) can confound zinc levels.

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Decoding Personalized Nutritional, Microbiome and Host Patterns Impacting Clinical and Prognostic Features in Crohn's Disease
ClinicalTrials.gov

Decoding Personalized Nutritional, Microbiome and Host Patterns Impacting Clinical and Prognostic Features in Crohn's Disease

Understanding how individual diet and microbiome patterns relate to disease activity could help create personalized dietary approaches for children with Crohn's disease and improve monitoring using home fecal...

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Clinical utility of serum leucine-rich alpha-2 glycoprotein for assessing disease activity and mucosal healing in ulcerative colitis across different treatment settings: a prospective observational cohort study
BMC Gastroenterology

Clinical utility of serum leucine-rich alpha-2 glycoprotein for assessing disease activity and mucosal healing in ulcerative colitis across different treatment settings: a prospective observational cohort study

Based on the title and source metadata, this appears to be a clinical study related to Ulcerative colitis, Inflammatory bowel disease, and Tests and monitoring. The original article is from BMC Gastroenterology.

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Stratified by baseline corticosteroid use: which advanced therapy works best for whom in ulcerative colitis?
Frontiers in Medicine

Stratified by baseline corticosteroid use: which advanced therapy works best for whom in ulcerative colitis?

The review suggests baseline corticosteroid use may change how well some advanced UC therapies work, especially IL-23 inhibitors and S1P modulators, which could affect treatment choices and trial reporting.

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Efficacy and Safety of Mirikizumab for Induction and Maintenance of Remission in Ulcerative Colitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Journal of Enterocolitis

Efficacy and Safety of Mirikizumab for Induction and Maintenance of Remission in Ulcerative Colitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Mirikizumab showed higher rates of clinical and endoscopic remission than placebo in pooled randomized trials, which could expand treatment options for people with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis if confirmed by...

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Transient Elastography for Liver Fibrosis and Steatosis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Current Evidence, Clinical Implications, and Future Directions
Journal of Enterocolitis

Transient Elastography for Liver Fibrosis and Steatosis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Current Evidence, Clinical Implications, and Future Directions

FibroScan detects liver fibrosis and steatosis that are common and sometimes under-recognized in people with IBD; identifying liver disease earlier could change monitoring or referral decisions, especially for patients...

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Long-term clinical outcomes of stem cell-based interventions in Crohn's-related perianal fistula: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland

Long-term clinical outcomes of stem cell-based interventions in Crohn's-related perianal fistula: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Perianal fistulas in Crohn’s disease are often hard to treat; this review suggests stem cell therapies can produce durable closure for many patients and appear safe over 1–4 years of follow-up.

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Brief report: Effectiveness and safety of recombinant zoster vaccine in inflammatory bowel disease patients aged 18 years and older: A matched cohort and self-controlled case series study.
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

Brief report: Effectiveness and safety of recombinant zoster vaccine in inflammatory bowel disease patients aged 18 years and older: A matched cohort and self-controlled case series study.

People with IBD are at higher risk for shingles; this study suggests the recombinant zoster vaccine reduces that risk and did not increase short-term IBD flares in the populations studied. That could inform vaccine...

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Effectiveness, safety, and clinical outcomes of treatment with the oral α4-integrin antagonist carotegrast methyl in patients with active ulcerative colitis: a multicenter observational study (CANAL study)
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Effectiveness, safety, and clinical outcomes of treatment with the oral α4-integrin antagonist carotegrast methyl in patients with active ulcerative colitis: a multicenter observational study (CANAL study)

This study provides real-world data suggesting the oral α4-integrin antagonist carotegrast methyl can improve patient-reported stool frequency and rectal bleeding in many people with ulcerative colitis who did not...

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Side effects of glucocorticoids and specific aspects of laboratory monitoring for osteoporosis in patients with ulcerative colitis
South Russian Journal of Therapeutic Practice

Side effects of glucocorticoids and specific aspects of laboratory monitoring for osteoporosis in patients with ulcerative colitis

Systemic glucocorticoids used for UC can cause bone loss; identifying early, noninvasive markers could let clinicians detect steroid-induced osteoporosis sooner and intervene to reduce fracture risk.

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Clinical‑microbiotic correlations in ulcerative colitis: bacterial and fungal taxa in disease relapse and remission
South Russian Journal of Therapeutic Practice

Clinical‑microbiotic correlations in ulcerative colitis: bacterial and fungal taxa in disease relapse and remission

Microbiome composition differed between relapse and remission in ulcerative colitis in this study; specific bacterial and fungal taxa were statistically associated with clinical and endoscopic activity and are proposed...

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Research progress on intestinal probiotics-mediated protection of the intestinal mucosal barrier in ulcerative colitis
Frontiers in Immunology

Research progress on intestinal probiotics-mediated protection of the intestinal mucosal barrier in ulcerative colitis

The intestinal mucosal barrier is central to ulcerative colitis. If probiotics can strengthen that barrier, they might reduce inflammation or help maintain remission. This review summarizes mechanistic and early clinical...

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Functional Gut Microbiota Alterations in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Receiving Long-Term Biologic Therapy: A Pilot Comparative Study.
Journal of clinical medicine

Functional Gut Microbiota Alterations in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Receiving Long-Term Biologic Therapy: A Pilot Comparative Study.

This study suggests that even when people with IBD are in clinical and biological remission on long-term biologic therapy, their gut microbiome composition and inferred functions can still differ from laboratory...

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Complementary Roles of Artificial Intelligence and Disease-Specific Optical Diagnosis During Ulcerative Colitis Surveillance: A Prospective Tandem Colonoscopy Study.
Journal of clinical medicine

Complementary Roles of Artificial Intelligence and Disease-Specific Optical Diagnosis During Ulcerative Colitis Surveillance: A Prospective Tandem Colonoscopy Study.

AI-assisted detection tools and disease-specific optical classifications could improve lesion detection and real-time characterization during UC surveillance, potentially affecting surveillance accuracy and...

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Persistence, Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Vedolizumab After Switching to the Subcutaneous Route in a Prospective French National Cohort Study
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Persistence, Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Vedolizumab After Switching to the Subcutaneous Route in a Prospective French National Cohort Study

If you or your clinician are considering switching from IV to subcutaneous vedolizumab, this multicentre cohort suggests most patients (about 84%) remain on the subcutaneous formulation at one year. The switch appears...

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Prior vedolizumab exposure and fibroblast-derived MMP13 are associated with ustekinumab nonresponse in ulcerative colitis
Journal of Gastroenterology

Prior vedolizumab exposure and fibroblast-derived MMP13 are associated with ustekinumab nonresponse in ulcerative colitis

If you or your clinician are choosing between advanced therapies for ulcerative colitis, this study suggests past vedolizumab use may be linked to lower likelihood of responding to ustekinumab.

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Association of prealbumin with risk of abdominal surgery and endoscopic recurrence in Crohn’s disease: A machine learning study
World Journal of Gastroenterology

Association of prealbumin with risk of abdominal surgery and endoscopic recurrence in Crohn’s disease: A machine learning study

If validated, prealbumin — a routine blood protein test reflecting nutrition and inflammation — could help predict who with Crohn’s disease is more likely to need abdominal surgery or to have endoscopic recurrence after...

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Fecal calprotectin changes after polyethylene glycol bowel preparation in patients with ulcerative colitis in remission
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Fecal calprotectin changes after polyethylene glycol bowel preparation in patients with ulcerative colitis in remission

Fecal calprotectin is commonly used to monitor IBD activity. If bowel prep raises calprotectin modestly, that could affect how post-procedure results are interpreted and avoid unnecessary treatment changes.

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Navigating microbial balance: Insights and interventions for optimal health amid antibiotic treatment in inflammatory bowel disease
Heliyon

Navigating microbial balance: Insights and interventions for optimal health amid antibiotic treatment in inflammatory bowel disease

Antibiotics can substantially change gut microbes; for people with IBD those changes may affect inflammation and gut barrier function. The review summarizes microbiome-targeted strategies that patients and clinicians may...

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Improving Endoscopic Scoring Accuracy in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Impact of a Focused Training Intervention
Endoscopy International Open

Improving Endoscopic Scoring Accuracy in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Impact of a Focused Training Intervention

Consistent, accurate endoscopic scoring matters for treatment decisions and trial outcomes in pediatric IBD. If focused training meaningfully improves scoring—especially for SES‑CD—it could reduce variability in clinical...

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GPR97 is a novel diagnostic biomarker and immunomodulatory target in ulcerative colitis: evidence from integrated bioinformatics and experimental validation
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

GPR97 is a novel diagnostic biomarker and immunomodulatory target in ulcerative colitis: evidence from integrated bioinformatics and experimental validation

Finding reliable diagnostic biomarkers could help detect UC earlier and clarify immune mechanisms that drive disease; GPR97 is proposed here as such a marker and a possible immunomodulatory target, which may interest...

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